fiduciary responsibility

collocation in English

meaningsoffiduciaryandresponsibility

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fiduciary
adjective
uk
/fɪˈdʒuː.ʃi.ə.ri/us
/fɪˈduː.ʃi.er.i/
relating to the responsibility to take care of someone else's money in a ...
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responsibility
noun
uk
/rɪˌspɒn.sɪˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/rɪˌspɑːn.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
something that it is your job or duty to ...
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(Definition offiduciaryandresponsibilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Because enhancing certain opportunities necessarily diminishes others, providing a child with genetic enhancements violates thefiduciaryresponsibilityof the parents to safeguard the child's future.
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This ought to open up a wide range of opportunities in the future, so it seems compatible with ourfiduciaryresponsibility.
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A physician's primaryfiduciaryresponsibilityis to her patient,10 not to her patient's family and friends.
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How rational choice can take full note offiduciaryresponsibility, along with other features of committed behavior, is analyzed in my (1997).
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If, in fact, the successful development of traits is a part of ourfiduciaryresponsibilityto our child, then two things are clear.
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Unlike a watcher/witness, a lawyer has a clear, unambiguousfiduciaryresponsibilityto advocate for the client, in this case, the team.
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This is justified via the maxim of thefiduciaryresponsibilityto shareholders.
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Under current law, however, the pension plan hasfiduciaryresponsibility, and if some of the choices go bad, the plan sponsor may be held responsible for offering these choices.
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They do discuss in general terms, however, physicians' ethical duty to respect other persons, to faithfully discharge anyfiduciaryresponsibility, to be truthful, and to provide effective supervision to trainees.
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The ability to balance competing interests of this dual beneficiary nature is crucial to a successful parent-child relationship and to the appropriate exercise of ourfiduciaryresponsibility.
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If they are there with theirfiduciaryresponsibility, what are they supposed to do?
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It is also worrying because many people say that thefiduciaryresponsibilityof lending institutions is only to the policyholder and the depositor.
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To the extent that it is, the functions of the board are thefiduciaryresponsibilityof all members.
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It is also emphasised that they have afiduciaryresponsibilityto those on whose behalf they are investing.
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I urge them to return to the service of justice, to which they have afiduciaryresponsibilityas servants of the law.
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It makes me wonder how this provision lies with the director's normalfiduciaryresponsibility.
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I make this point with particular regard to those beneficiaries who are managers and trustees and therefore should be accountable in theirfiduciaryresponsibility.
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Will he confirm that there is no suggestion anywhere in the judgment that there is afiduciaryresponsibilitybetween individual councillors and ratepayers?
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Trustees must live up to theirfiduciaryresponsibilityto act in the interests of all the beneficiaries.
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It makes a mockery of the concept offiduciaryresponsibility, on which health authorities were originally established.
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